John Lithgow will return to Broadway next spring to star in ''The Columnist,'' playing the famous midcentury newspaperman Joseph Alsop in a new drama by David Auburn, who won both the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best play in 2001...

July 27, 2011, Wednesday

John Lithgow will return to Broadway next spring to star in “The Columnist,” playing the famous midcentury newspaperman Joseph Alsop in a new drama by David Auburn, who won both the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best play in...

July 26, 2011, Tuesday

The theater company will present “The Columnist,” David Auburn’s first Broadway drama since “Proof,” as well as “We Live Here,” a new play by Zoe Kazan, and “Close Up Space,” a new comedy featuring David Hyde Pierce.